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Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by sbierwagen »

jcr wrote: post #12
yurivish wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a pretty interesting idea; do you have links to the "root weave" image? I googled but the search didn't turn anything up. I'm not sure it's quite the direction I want to take Silk, but thanks for sharing -- I never thought about using desktop images for a pragmatic purpose such as that.

The various test images, including the rootweave, can be found in Xorg/XFree CVS: http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/data/bitmaps/ In the past I've read analysis/explanation regarding the various test images, why they were created and how they should be used, but that was a very long time ago. You'll probably need to do a bit of digging to find such information. Pure beauty is commendable as well as commonly desirabl…

Also, lagrom.nl has a bunch of LCD test images, one of them being a clock/phase image that serves much the same purpose.

http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/clock_phase.php

Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by Joshim5 »

bgraves wrote: post #8

Stunning! Can you give us some technical details? How are you producing the images (libraries, custom scripts, etc.)? I've thought about a project like this (your execution is light-years ahead of anything I could accomplish) using Nodebox -perhaps- as an excuse to learn something new about python. Edit: I see it's in JavaScript? Excellent! Any other tools or techniques you found helpful would be interesting to read.…

I second this comment. I'd really be interested in learning how you made something like this.

Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by astrofinch »

grncdr wrote: post #44

I'm finding the shift+mouse isn't working (using Firefox 4 beta 7 on Linux)

I'm not seeing anything interesting from shift+mouse either. Google Chrome 8.0.552.224, Ubuntu 10.04.

Edit: As mdda points out, it works if I hold shift and control simultaneously, pushing shift first.

Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by Encosia »

grantj wrote: post #57
Encosia wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get why that would be the issue for IE <9, but the latest preview version of 9 has canvas support. Hardware accelerated, even.

My guess is IE 9 doesn't supports the 'lighter' globalCompositeOperation on the canvas which is key to making the effect work. Without it I bet the lines look pretty dull.

As it turns out, it works pretty well with the latest IE9 Platform Preview, long as you switch IE's user-agent to one of the supported browsers. I think you're onto something though, because it does look less shiny in IE than in Chrome.

Re: My winter break project — Silk

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Post by meric »

yurivish wrote: post #24
bgraves wrote: post #8

Stunning! Can you give us some technical details? How are you producing the images (libraries, custom scripts, etc.)? I've thought about a project like this (your execution is light-years ahead of anything I could accomplish) using Nodebox -perhaps- as an excuse to learn something new about python. Edit: I see it's in JavaScript? Excellent! Any other tools or techniques you found helpful would be interesting to read.…

I will probably set up a blog and write up some posts on the experience of making it sometime soon. :-)

Clicked on the example image but it didn't replay exactly. =[ Nevertheless, the non-exact replay was just as amazing. http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/1645/screenshot20110111at...
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